Professional Development 8 – Project Manager – Australia's online resource for project management professionals

Australian project management in a global context

Global interconnectedness is now apparent in even the smallest project, so where does this leave Australian project management?

June 16, 2011

Professional project management—where are we now?

Project management has come a long way, but there’s still a distance to go before the public identifies the discipline as a discrete profession.

May 13, 2011

A project management paradigm shift

A fatal assumption prevails that only an individual who understands the technical aspects of a particular discipline can successfully run a project delivering that technical work.

May 12, 2011

Project management education today

A vox pop of educators on the gaps between education and professional project management. What are the gaps between the project management profession and education? What can industry do to close the gaps? What can educators do to close the gaps? What are some of the key challenges? What is the desired outcome of closing the gaps?

March 30, 2011

Project management recruitment today

A vox pop of project management recruiters on the challenges in the field today. Michael Chachaty Associate Director at BlueVisions Management What is the biggest challenge facing project manager recruitment today? The biggest challenge facing project management recruitment is matching the candidate to technical requirements as well as the equally important cultural alignment. Put simply, […]

March 23, 2011

A bridge to real world project management education

Over the last five years, I conducted a number of detailed case studies of projects in both Australia and overseas with the aim of diagnosing their managerial shortcomings and suggesting improvements. The results clearly demonstrate that: The actual practices applied did not match the complexities of management of these projects. Managers strived to get their […]

March 21, 2011

Finding the gaps in project management

In less than two decades project management has developed from a body of knowledge to aspiring to become a profession. But where is it now? Where is it going? How will it get there? How has project management emerged in organisations and been affected by their evolution? Projects carried out in organisations—such as organisational changes […]

March 16, 2011